OMG! I thought Gentoo was bit of a pain in the ass!
Xubuntu is way more painful.

Thankfully I stumbled here and now have the latest nVidia driver(100.14.03) installed and appears to be working.

Thanks mate!

8800GTS amd64

lots of xorg.conf editing entailed, but once you get into the gui just sudo nvidia-settings and do the rest from there. Doing this also gives you a more complete config if your not to sure on the options you need. I now have Dual Screens again 🙂

I’m getting a “X Server is now disabled. Restart GDM when it is configured correctly” when I boot up.

I was able to recover by loading the vesa driver via Recovery Mode >> “sudo dpkg-reconfigure xserver-xorg”

I tried loading the restricted driver back the way it was before I attemted the above procedure resulting in the same error during bootup. So, it appears I managed to jack things up pretty good. Is there anything I can do to revert my system back to how it was before I attempted the above procesure?

I tried this a few days ago after the Nvidia-new drivers from the Ubuntu repositories killed Gnome and all I got was xterm. When I installed the nvidia drivers it worked fine, better than fine actually.

But after a clean install I followed these instructions and now the decoration (eg title bar, x for close etc) are missing!

Where is says “vi” instead type “nano -w”. That should make it much more esier for you. Also you should do a google search for “vi howto”. Trust me, it is necessary to know vi/vim.
Also if you are stuck in vi do the following:
1. Press escape once
2. type “:” without the quotemarks once.
3. type “q!” qithout the quotemarks an press enter.

Using: nvidia-installer ncurses user interface
WARNING: You do not appear to have an NVIDIA GPU supported by the 100.14.09
NVIDIA Linux graphics driver installed in this system. For further
details, please see the appendix SUPPORTED NVIDIA GRAPHICS CHIPS in
the README available on the Linux driver download page athttp://www.nvidia.com.
-> The file ‘/tmp/.X0-lock’ exists and appears to contain the process ID ‘4540’
of a runnning X server.
ERROR: You appear to be running an X server; please exit X before installing.
For further details, please see the section INSTALLING THE NVIDIA DRIVER
in the README available on the Linux driver download page athttp://www.nvidia.com.
ERROR: Installation has failed. Please see the file
‘/var/log/nvidia-installer.log’ for details. You may find suggestions
on fixing installation problems in the README available on the Linux
driver download page at http://www.nvidia.com.

Hi,
I followed the instructions from the beginning of this thread. Unfortunately I didn’t get expected result. After rebooting I got error message: Failed to initialize the NVIDIA kernel module! Now I cannot use NVIDIA driver. I’m using Ubuntu 8.10 on AMD64.
Can somebody help, what goes wrong and how to fix it?

Thanks to NVIDIA support I resolved previous problem: Failed to initialize the NVIDIA kernel module!
I removed 2 packages: linux-restricted-modules and linux-restricted-modules-common. After that error disappears and system booted up normally.